On the whole it could be worse; you might have to endure folk memories, histories and nightmares of Mr William Topaz McGonagall, quite possibly the very worst poet to ever write in the English language - please don't look up his Wikipedia article, which actually contains samples of his doggerel poetry (please, please trust me on this - his middle name really DOES appear to have been Topaz and he doesn't appear to have been a Terry Prachett character since he lived long before the illustrious Sir Pterry).

Founder of H.E.R.O.I.C, Complimenter-in-Chief, Co-Arch Henchman to the Grin, Servant of the Hoff!

Special Notes - If you look at her and intend to interrupt her in any fashion, make a DC 20 Will save. If you fail, you are affected by a continuous lasting mind control command to not do anything that has the remotest of possibilities of affecting her. This is includes attacks that might knock back into her or area attacks.

History:

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It is a tale of two women. Belinda Donnelly and Belinda Sullivan. Born in the fishing village of Ballycotton, East Cork Belinda Donnelly was your typical local. She went to school in Ballycotton, fell in love with a local fisherman who used to be an IRA member at the tender age of 18, and got married soon after. To her, life was everything she could have wanted out of it. Her husband provided enough to scrape by and gave her three beautiful children that she could pour all her love and affection. Of course, it wasn't a glamorous life like some of the girls in the village who went off to live in Dublin or London, but it was her little slice of paradise. Along the way, her husband, Ryan Murphy taught her some of his old IRA tricks just in case something happened.

Something did happen, on Oct 31 2013. Not that Ballycotton noticed. A few of the residence got powers such as the ability to attract fish, green thumbs that could grow any crop, but mostly minor powers without much practical uses. While the whole world burned in the fires of the event, Belinda Murphy and her family lived their peaceful ideal lives. Belinda herself, didn't even know the full extent of her powers. To her, it was useful to pull things from the cupboards to cook or bake food. Sure, the village heard reports of the chaos and attacks by the Vikings of Old, but it did not take it seriously. Not much news was reliable anymore.

One day the news came to the village. A band of 400 raiders bombarded her village with empowered arrows that killed most of the fighting men including her husband. That was when the landings occurred. All 400 men who had lust in their eyes and empty stomachs saw the bounties of food and women at their finger tips. House by house they went until they came to Belinda's where she was cowering with her three children. Without a thought, the raiders killed her children by beheading them. In a rage, Belinda screamed out and the raiders vanished into a million little specks of dirt into the wind. Not content to take her revenge on them, she marched out of the house and dispatched all the remaining raiders she could find. Most tried to flee, but a mere gaze form Belinda made them vanish.

Fire raged throughout the village and after it was all said and done only a few people were left alive. Those who did rallied around Belinda. She told them to call her Belinda Sullivan and that Belinda Murphy was dead. In a matter of weeks, the whole Emerald Isle was free of the Viking raiders who saw it as not worth the effort. Belinda than turned her attention to bringing peace to the war torn world. This too she achieved with the Treaty of Avalon. World opinion of her was soon divided. Half of the world called her the George Washington of Ireland and the other viewed her an oppressor who could not be rivaled. Wildly inaccurate rumors about her spending too much time with horses at night and being a heartless power hungry woman also spread on the new internet.

In conversations since fully embracing her power, she has maintained the name of Belinda Sullivan as her name since birth. Only a few still living know her true origins. During interviews with various organizations attempting to start a global news network, she has refused to address her past before the event. No one is stupid enough to question her.

Geography: All the land west of the Mississippi River of the former United States, parts of Northern Mexico, and small parts of southern Canada.

Leaders: No long term ones. Territories rise and fall daily.

Government: Anarchy

History: Americas strength before the event was it's diversity. Internaly, it fought over cultural, idealogical, and general perspective issues. Through it all, the people claimed to be American and fighting to make America a better place because of the power and influence it held in the world scheme. It had it's China towns, little Italies, Amish, and so on. They all shared being American and the American dream. Even after the initial event outbreaks, the people believed in America. Seattle being nuked changed everything.

Rival groups who had long been at each other throats forced out the U.S military as a united front, but once the vacuum was open the blood of millions filled it. Poor fought the rich. Latinos fought the blacks. Asians united. An all out war erupted because of the years of pent up racial and cutural tensions. One slight against a Chinesse American student still trying to get to a makeshift school was viewed as a crime against all Chinesse Americans. In this chaos, what remained of the Mexican army even tried taking back California only to be overwhelemed by the many rival groups. One thing the groups all greed upon was that destruction of property was senseless. Seattle had sent a strong warning that a position of scortched earth left everyone without land.

At the time fo the Treaty of Avalon signing, the leaders of the strongest groups inside the North American Wastelands signed on represenatives for the embattled land. A few territorial lines were even drawn. It didn't take long for the weaker territorial areas to fall. As one group expanded, it taxed their resources and another took the expanding groups territory. Stuck in the crossfire of all this mayhem was the innocents who just wanted to live their lives. To a degree they were able. WTF helped restore basics such as water, power, and methods of transportation. Phone lines go replaced by the new Internet. All parties respcted the fact that infrstructure was needed no matter who was in charge, so most of the fixes stuck. The land is still divided. East of the Mississippi, the Reunited States of America says they own the land, but lack the muscle to do much more than keep their own territory together.

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